5starcooks Activity-based costing Second Edition

What are the elements of an ABC system? What factors influence managements assessment of ABC success? What is activity based management? What to do if there are almost equally competing allocation bases? Which allocation unit should you chose for your organization and why? Which customer channel is most profitable, clerical or industrial, and why? Why distinguish between compulsory and voluntary savings? Why for any manufacturer is proper inventory management important? This Activity-based costing Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Activity-based costing challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Activity-based costing investments work better. This Activity-based costing All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Activity-based costing Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Activity-based costing maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Activity-based costing improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: Diagnose Activity-based costing projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices. Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals. Integrate recent advances in Activity-based costing and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines. Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Activity-based costing Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Activity-based costing areas need attention. Your purchase includes access to the Activity-based costing self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.